Improved washing-machine



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BENJAMIN F. FELLMAN, OF SELLERSVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPRovED WASHING-MACHINE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 102,672, dated May 3,1870.

I, BENJAMrN F. FELLMAN, of Sellersville, county of Bucks, State ofPennsylvania, have invented an Improved Washing-Machine, of which thefollowing is a specification:

Nfmwc and Object of the Intention.

])escr/pton of the Accompanying Drawing.

Figure l is a perspective view of my improved washin g-niachine, andFig. 2 a plan view of the same.

General Description.

The stationary portion of the machine consists of a box or vessel, A,supported at the corners by posts or legs B B and B B', and

Ahaving arranged within it a ribbed and perforated or other suitablerubbing-bed, C. The movable rubber F consists of an arm, a, and of aframe, b, secured to the same, the latter being adapted to the interiorof the box A, and being ribbed and perforated or otherwise roughcned onits under side, to correspond to the surface of the rubbing-bed C. Thearm a is pivo ted at m to arock-spindle, H, which is hung to andarranged to turn freely in the upper ends of the posts B B, so that thesaid arm,

and consequently the Whole movable rubber, can be vibrated horizontally,and in the arc of a circle, upon the pin w, or can be raised verticallyfrom the rubbing-bed by turning the spindle upon its axis.

In using this machine, the clothes or other articles to be Washed areplaced upon the bed C, and a sufficient quantity of soap-suds to coverthe said bed is pouredinto the box A. The rubber F is then depressed,and, while held down upon the mass of clothes, is rapidly reciprocated,the pressure being relieved and the position of the mass changed fromtime to time, so that all portions of the same may be rubbed andcleansed.

The rubber, While being thus reciprocated and forced downward, can yieldvertically, so as to accommodate itself` tothe inequalities of the massof clothes, and thus reach all portions of the same; and when thewashing is coinpleted the said rubber can be raised clear of the box, soas to enable the clothes to be removed.

Ola/im.

The tank A, with its perforated rubbing-bed C and slotted rock-shaft H,in combination With the perforated rubber b, secured in a xed positionto an arm, a, hung to the rock-shaftv ABRAHAM S. OREssMAN, SAMUEL M.BISHOP.

